Catalogue

Register of baptisms, June 1590 - November 1711; marriages, June 1590 - November 1711; and burials, July 1591 - November 1711 No entries from 1647 - 1660 and 1696 - 1704 Note of archdeacon's visitation, 1697 Note of appointment of parish clerk, 1699

Register of baptisms, January 1712 - December 1812; marriages, November 1711 - January 1775, and burials, March 1712 - December 1812 Notes of inductions, 1751, 1881 Baptisms and burials of recusants, 1754 - 1803 Numbers of papists, 1767 List of books given by the rector, 1771 Account for leave to go for water to the Tees through church land, 1788 - 1855 List of briefs, 1793 - 1819

Register of baptisms, May 1813 - November 1896 Population figures, 1821, 1851 Notes of confirmations, 1822 - 1853 List of church fees

Register of banns and marriages, June 1754 - April 1819

Register of marriages, May 1813 - May 1836 Copy of a memorial of a declaration concerning property let out for poor relief

Register of marriages, 23 November 1837 - 23 October 1978

Register of marriages, 21 April 1979 - 31 July 1982

Register of marriages, 4 September 1982 - 18 June 1988

Register of banns of marriages, 2 May 1824 - 17 July 1910

Register of banns of marriages, 31 July 1910 - 9 May 1954

Register of banns of marriage, 12 September 1954 - 24 June 1979

Register of burials, January 1813 - November 1910 Copy of a conveyance of a site for a church school, 1848 List of subscribers for the school, 1848 List of church fees, n.d. Note on the extent of the vicarage and glebe lands, n.d.

Registers of Coniscliffe, 1590 - 1812, editor H.M. Wood, 1908

Book of strange preachers, 30 June 1861 - 28 January 1866

Register of services, 9 April 1903 - July 1912

Register of services, 4 August 1912 - 3 April 1932

Register of services, 3 April 1932 - 27 January 1957

Register of services, 6 January 1957 - 26 November 1978

Copy pastoral order issued by the diocese of Durham, which, inter alia transfers part of the parish of Gainford to the parish of Coniscliffe, 6 March 1975

Copy instrument of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners concerning a grant by the incumbent of the benefice of Coniscliffe, 15 July 1920

Correspondence and papers from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners concerning the change in investment of part of the stipend of Coniscliffe, 29 October 1929 - March 1935

Notice from the Ecclesiastical Conmission of the change in investment of part of the income of the benefice, 25 February 1938

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Conmission, with related papers, concerning arrangements for payment of stipend, 18 May 1939

Notebook of F. E. Loxley containing notes and drafts of lectures on the themes of natural history and English poetry, n.d. [c1880]

Notebook of F. E. Loxley containing notes on Waltham Abbey, its history, inhabitants, flora and fauna, n.d. [c1880]

Diary of F. E. Loxley for 1885, containing diary and cash account entries covering 1 January - 31 December 1885

Diary of F. E. Loxley for 1886, containing diary and cash account entries covering 1 January 31 December 1886

Diary of F. E. Loxley for 1887, containing diary and cash account entries covering 1 January - 31 December 1887

Diary of F. E. Loxley for 1888, containing diary and cash account entries covering 1 January - 31 December 1888

Diary of F. E. Loxley for 1889, containing diary and cash account entries covering 1 January - 31 December 1889

Diary of F. E. Loxley for 1890, containing diary and cash account entries covering 1 January - 31 December 1890

Diary of F. E. Loxley for 1892, containing diary and cash account entries covering 1 January - 31 December 1892

Diary of F. E. Loxley for 1893, containing diary entries covering 1 January - 31 December 1893

Dairy of F. E. Loxley for 1894, containing 'desiderata' (a list of personal goals) for 1895 and diary entries covering 1 January - 31 December 1894

Diary of F. E. Loxley for 1895, containing 'desiderata' for the ensuing year and diary entries covering 1 January - 31 December 1895

Diary of F. E. Loxley for 1896, containing entries covering 1 January - 31 December 1896

Diary of F. E. Loxley for 1897, containing entries covering 1 January - 21 March and 1 June 1897

Copies of returns of parochial statistics, 1954 - 1966

Minutes of meetings of the chapter and conference of the Northern Division of Darlington Rural Deanery, 5 April 1859 - 13 November 1879 and Auckland Rural Deanery, 23 July 1880 - 4 May 1895 Includes: certificate appointing Rev. Robert Long, vicar of Auckland, St Andrew with St Ann, as Rural Dean of the Deanery of Auckland, 17 July 1880

Minutes of meetings of the chapter and conference of Auckland Rural Deanery, 9 November 1895 - 23 November 1914 Includes: year books, May 1895 - May 1897; May 1899 - March 1901 and annual reports, January 1900 - January 1901

Pastoral order for creating the rural deaneries of Gateshead West and Sedgefield, 12 June 1978

Minutes of the South West Durham Clerical Society (Auckland Clerical Society from 3 December 1894; Auckland and Stanhope Clerical Society from 11 March 1895,) 18 April 1887 - 8 January 1900 Membership and subscription lists (including Rev F. E. Loxley of Shildon,) 1888 - 1902

Minutes of the Auckland and Stanhope Clerical Society (secretary, F. E. Loxley of Byers Green,) 5 February 1900 - 7 December 1908 Subscription lists, 1901 - 1908

Certificate of redemption of tithe rent charge, for lands in Coniscliffe, 31 December 1921

Certificate of redemption of tithe rent charge, for lands in Coniscliffe, 31 December 1921

Correspondence and papers from Durham Diocesan Office and Tithe Redemption Commission concerning repairs to the chancel (under the Tithe Act, 1936), 30 January 1939 - 15 March 1954

12 April 1934 (1) Francis Edwin Loxley, vicar of Coniscliffe, on behalf of the church of the parish (2) North Eastern Electricity Supply Company Limited Wayleave agreement for fixing a wire stay at High Coniscliffe, as specified on the plan annexed, with covering letter, 18 April 1934

Designation of the church as a building of special architectural or historic interest, 20 March - 19 April 1967

Report, certificate of guarantee, and related papers concerning preservation treatment to woodwork at the church by Rentokil, 18 May - 21 September 1971

Fire prevention inspection report on the church by Durham County Fire Brigade, 5 - 11 May 1972

Ground plan of church as proposed with sections of the nave and chancel looking east, by C. Hodgson Fowler, architect, Durham, August 1890. Approved by the Archdeaon of Auckland, 27 June 1891 [Shows underground water pipes installed in February 1904] Scale: 10 feet to 1 inch [1:120]

Letter from the Bishop of Jarrow to Rev. F.E. Loxley, Coniscliffe, concerning the height of churchyard railings, 28 April 1942

Terrier and account of church property, 1910 - 1922

Terrier and account of church property, 1922 - 1929

Terrier and account of church property, 1940

Terrier and account of church property, 1943

Terrier, 1960

Terrier and inventory, 1960 - 1983

Terrier, 1977

Faculty for the installation of a stained glass window, 15 November 1918

Faculty for the erection of a tablet, 19 July 1920

Faculty for the installation of a pedal board in the consolve of the organ, 29 December 1958

Faculty for the introduction of a literature table, 1 July 1961

Faculty for the installation of an oil-fired heating boiler and oil storage tank, 31 August 1962

Faculty for the installation of an electric organ blower, 7 November 1946

Faculty for the introduction and for the interment of cremated remains, 8 December 1967

Faculty to erect a stained glass window in memory of Rev. John Hamilton, 15 February 1973

Faculty for the interment of the cremated remains of Rev. J.S. Hannon and the installation of an inscribed, blue slate plaque, 3 March 1983

Faculty for the introduction of mahogany veneered book-case, 28 April 1986

Archdeacon's certificate under the Faculty Jurisdiction Measure 1938, for general repairs to the parish church, with related correspondence, 7 April 1960

Archdeacon's certificate for the interior re-decoration of the parish church, 7 February 1968

Architect's quinquennial report on the church, 21 July 1958

Architect's quinquennial report on the church, 13 November 1963

Churchwardens' accounts, 1767 - 1807, includes overseers' accounts, 1767 - 1774

Churchwardens' accounts, 1807 - 1868

Churchwardens' accounts, 1868 - 1890

Churchwardens' accounts, 9 April 1899 - 10 April 1906 [also offertory accounts, 7 April 1946 - 31 December 1965]

Burial ground accounts, 15 January 1906 - 9 February 1931

Parochial accounts, 1945 - 1966

Parochial accounts, 1971 - 1972

Vestry minutes, 1859 - 1945

15 July 1958 (1) Parochial Church Council of High Coniscliffe (2) J.W. Cameron & Co. Ltd. Licence for direction sign for the Duke of Wellington Hotel, High Coniscliffe Consideration: £2 2s. p.a.

Coniscliffe Day School Committee, minutes and accounts, 1829 - 1850

Coniscliffe Day School Committee, minutes and accounts, 1849 - 1890

Minute book of the managers of Coniscliffe National School, 6 December 1904 - 2 February 1961 (1 volume, leather half-bound)

Copies of conveyances of land by Philip Henry Howard of Corby Castle (Cumberland), esq., to the vicar and churchwardens of Coniscliffe of the school house and cottage, and of 658 sq. yds. of land, 8 July 1848 and 6 August 1861

Draft of conveyance of land by Philip Henry Howard of Corby Castle (Cumberland) esq., to the vicar and churchwardens of Coniscliffe, approved on behalf of the Committee of Council on Education, 18 July 1861

Memorandum concerning the transfer of £198 8s.8d. by the Committee of the Village Hall Fund to the Parochial Church Council as a contribution towards the acquisition of the old C.E. school for use as a church hall, 31 May 1963

Letter from Messrs Latimer, Hinks, Marsham & Little of Darlington to Rev. J. Hamilton, High Coniscliffe, forwarding a copy of the conveyance by the Durham Diocesan Board of finance to the Parochial Church Council of the Old School, High Coniscliffe, 8 November 1965; and a copy of the scheme of 8 February 1960 for Church of England educational foundations in the diocese of Durham, 23 November 1965

26 March 1853 Copy of will, 30 July 1850, of Thomas Allison of High Coniscliffe, yeoman

Correspondence and returns concerning parochial charities, 23 November 1857 - 10 December 1900

Copy of the realisation and distribution account of the estate of Hannah Elizabeth Shaw, with related correspondence, 22 November - 1 December 1958

A history of Coniscliffe, by William Walshaw, master of Coniscliffe School, 1887 - 1925

Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings and sketches of various local coats of arms, c.1929 (1 packet)

Response of Rev. David Jenkins to the controversy over his remarks on television programmes with related press cuttings and papers, 5 May - 3 July 1984

Order of service for the consecration at York Minister of Rev. David Jenkins as Bishop of Durham, 6 July 1984

Register of the Mothers' Union of the parish of Byers Green, St Peter, recording annual returns, payments for journals and record of speakers; attendance at meetings and particulars of members and associates, 1897 - 1902

Byers Green & Newfield Parish Magazine, January [1917] - November [1918]